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• No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack. Rebels have frequently fired mortars into the capital from opposition-held suburbs.
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EU names 15 new targets for sanctions, including head of Russian general staff
• BRUSSELS (AP) -- The European Union on Tuesday released the names of 15 new targets of sanctions because of their roles in the Ukraine crisis.
• The list includes Gen. Valery Gerasimov, chief of the Russian General Staff and first deputy defense minister, and Lt. Gen. Igor Sergun, identified as head of GRU, the Russian military intelligence agency.
• The decision taken by the EU governments' ambassadors in Brussels brings the total number of Russians or pro-Russian individuals in Ukraine targeted by the EU's sanctions to 48.
• The EU move comes after the U.S. decided to broaden its own sanctions to include seven Russian government officials and 17 companies with links to Putin.
• Russia's Foreign Ministry protested that the EU moves show "a complete misunderstanding of the political situation in this country and an open invitation to local neo-Nazis to continue creating lawlessness and extrajudicial killings against the civilian population of the southeast."
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North Korea conducts live-fire artillery drills in disputed western sea, Seoul says
• SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- North Korea conducted live-fire artillery drills near its disputed western sea boundary Tuesday, South Korean officials said, in a possible indication of rising frustration in Pyongyang as it pushes unsuccessfully for outside aid.
• Both Koreas conduct such drills routinely, but they can be sensitive because North Korea doesn't acknowledge the U.N.-drawn sea boundary near South Korean islands and the North Korean mainland in the Yellow Sea.
• Last month, South Korea fired artillery shells into the North's waters after North Korean shells from a live-fire drill landed south of the boundary. After South Korean drills in 2010, North Korea shelled a South Korean island, killing four people.
• On Tuesday afternoon, the North tested 50 rounds of artillery shells over 10 minutes, South Korean Defense Ministry spokesperson Kim Min-seok told reporters.
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